2009-2010 - Musical Postcards
September 26 & 27, 2009 • Ciao Bella
Giuseppe Verdi: Overture to “Nabucco”
Tomaso Albinoni: Adagio for Strings in g minor
Nino Rota: Bassoon Concerto – Ibby Roberts, bassoon
Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4, Opus 90 “Italian”
November 7 & 8, 2009 • Vive la France
Maurice Duruflé: Requiem – with UVa’s University Singers and Michael Slon, conductor
Claude Debussy: Danses Sacred and Profane – Anastasia Jellison, harp
Claude Debussy: La Mer
February 13 & 14, 2010 • Heartland of Europe
Zoltán Kodály: Galanta Dances
Frédéric Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 – Mimi Tung, piano
Arvo Pärt: Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten
Andrzej Panufnik: Sinfonia Sacra
March 27 & 28, 2010 • English Variations
Benjamin Britten: Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra (Variations on a Theme of Purcell)
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
Edward Elgar: Enigma Variations, Opus 36
April 24 & 25, 2010 • The New World
Samuel Barber: Essay No. 2 for Orchestra, Opus 17
Judith Shatin: Jefferson, In His Own Words (premiere)
Antonin Dvorák: Symphony No. 9 in e minor, Opus
95, “From the New World”
Plus! (at Cabell Hall)
December 5 & 6, 2009
Family Holiday Concerts
The University Singers join the orchestra for this festive celebration of the holiday season.
Michael Slon, conductor
January 30, 2010
The Chamber Orchestra of Charlottesville
Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings – Joseph Gaines, tenor and Ian Zook, horn
Elgar: Serenade for Strings
Haydn: Symphony No. 104, “London”